Assignment:
Discussion: Elements of Critical Thinking
Respond to Peers: Review your classmates' posts, and respond to two of your peers. When responding to your classmates, please provide feedback on their examples of good and poor critical thinking skills. Discuss additional ways one can think more critically. Each participation post should be a minimum of 75 words.
Explain at least five elements of critical thinking that you found in the reading material.
1. Critical thinking requires the applicable knowledge to allow reasonable assessment. Bailin, Case, Coombs, and Daniels state this is part of "an understanding of the various principles which govern good thinking in particular areas, and many of these are domain specific" (1999, p. 272).
2. Critical thinking requires a willingness and desire to think critically. Bailin, et al. define this as a critical spirit (1999).
3. Critical thinking requires the ability to separate facts from fiction and determine relevance.
4. Critical thinking requires the ability to be objective as well as a willingness to change their position when the arguments do not support their previous position (Plenener, 2014).
5. Critical thinking requires the ability to hypothesize and predict outcomes (Bailin, et al., 1999).